13th Annual San Francisco Drag King Contest hits the stage August 16

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There is still time to make plans to attend the The 13th Annual Drag San Francisco King Contest later this month. The show, produced by DragStrip Productions, is the biggest Drag King Competition in the World. There will be a wide variety of entertainment including musical productions, penetrating performances, and feats of entertainingly unbridled masculine stamina and staying power. The event takes place on August 16 at 8 p.m. at theDNA Lounge.

"The San Francisco Drag King Contest is a mash-up of the Miss America Pageant, American Idol, Halloween and a Monster Truck Show," said impresario Fudgie Frottage.

Virile Virtuoso, Fudgie Frottage, "The Man with The Biggest Balls in Show Business," and Internationally Renowned Burlesque Chanteuse, Comic and Siren, The Indra, as "The Indro vs. The Indra," a bi-sexual, bi-polar, half male, half female character, return to preside over the festivities as Masters (and 1/2 Mistress) of Ceremonies.

“It's a huge event,” said judge Simone DeLaGetto. “Everyone dresses up in their finest. It's a celebration of ‘being,' not just expressing yourself as a gender — a celebration of self, of being able to go out and have a good time. And, at the same time, there's a part that's just over-the-top cheesiness. But the energy is so high.”

Contestants are judged on talent, creativity, studliness, sex appeal, originality, humor, make-up/facial hair, and fashion by the illustrious panel of celebrity judges, including 2006 Drag King Titleholder, Buck Naked, Simone DeLaGetto of Harlem Shake Burlesque, and Sister Roma of The Tim and Roma Show and Hot House Video.